10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIX ROYAL MILITARY POLICEMEN MURDERED IN IRAQ

It was the largest single loss of life under enemy fire since the Falklands war – six British soldiers murdered in a tumbledown police station in the heat of southern Iraq.

Below the snow-dusted peaks of the Aran mountains lies a memorial to fallen soldiers. It is a simple affair, six stones neatly arranged on a scrap of windblown grass in mid-Wales.

Each commemorates a man murdered in the most controversial incident involving the British army in Iraq, a lasting reminder of the tragedy that took place in a squat storeroom one sweltering morning 2,500 miles away.

The men were executed by Iraqi insurgents. They died alone without military back-up, unable to defend themselves or summon help. The way the six Red Caps were killed in the dim antechamber of an Iraqi police station in June 2003 has remained one of the war’s most enduring controversies.

The Soldiers Charity

Memorial Book

On This Day

On the evening of the 25th May 1971 a terrorist entered the reception hall of Springfield Road Police station in Belfast. He carried a suitcase from which a smoking fuse protruded, dumping the case on the floor he fled out-side, inside the room were a man a woman and two children and several police officers. One of the police officers Continue Reading →